De Blasio Rents Out Townhouse in Brooklyn

It took just 12 days for Mayor Bill de Blasio to rent out his Brooklyn townhouse, and despite the building’s unadorned exterior, interest was intense: The three-bedroom home went for its asking price ($4,975 a month) to the very first people who visited.

Was it the French-door entry? The refurbished oak floors? The lingering aura of a like-minded liberal?

The renters, for now at least, are not saying. A City Hall spokeswoman, Rebecca Katz, said the new tenants, who already live in the neighborhood, Park Slope, and who plan to move in next month, had asked not to be identified.

But in an interview on Thursday, the agent who brokered the deal said the new residents were excited about the third bedroom and the backyard garden, desirable assets in the red-hot Brooklyn market. And they were not deterred by the paucity of bathrooms; there is only one, and it is on the third floor.

“It really does have a country style,” the agent, Trisha Webster of Brooklyn Properties, said of the mayor’s home, which she had advertised as “an oasis in Park Slope.”

“To have your own garden, I think that was very appealing,” she said.

It was not the typical real estate transaction: The tenants learned of the listing from a news report on Taxi TV.

“They contacted me right away,” said Ms. Webster, who received a deluge of emails and telephone calls about the house, which Mr. de Blasio is renting out while his family lives in Gracie Mansion.

The inquiries were mostly from other Park Slope residents, although she also heard from Manhattanites, Ms. Webster said.

The house, at about 1,500 square feet, is small for the neighborhood, where the average brownstone is 2,000 square feet or more. But the price was competitive for a three-bedroom in the area, and, Ms. Webster said, the new tenants had been looking to expand.

The rental, reported on Thursday by The Wall Street Journal, was completed quickly, but not before the tenants had a sit-down in the neighborhood with their soon-to-be landlord.

“It was just getting-to-know-you,” Ms. Webster said of the meeting with Mr. de Blasio and his wife, Chirlane McCray.

Mr. de Blasio’s predecessor, Michael R. Bloomberg, chose to stay in his Upper East Side home rather than move to Gracie. Former Mayor Edward I. Koch kept a rent-controlled one-bedroom on Washington Square Park.

Matt A. V. Chaban contributed reporting.

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